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L8 Lateness
Since the very beginning of https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/l8smartlight/l8-smartlight-the-soundless-speaker/ the founders of this project/company have been appalingly slow in responding to *anything*. The product was delivered close to 2 years behind schedule, and in many cases backers had to plead for updates, and would often get one update every 2 to 3 months. […]
Read MoreESP8266 Links
What with the recent buzz around the latest ESP8266 chips, I thought I should compile a list of handy links here… The manufacturer of ESP8266 – http://espressif.com/ Manufacturer discussion forum – http://bbs.espressif.com/ Community forum – http://www.esp8266.com/ Lua based firmware – http://nodemcu.com/index_en.html Discussion regarding MQTT on the ESP8266 – https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mqtt/Uy985KUpG64 ESP8266 […]
Read MoreAvaya 4621SW Config by DHCP
I’ve been fiddling with an Avaya 4621SW IP phone recently, and I wondered if it would be more appropriate to pass settings to it via DHCP options, rather than editing the 46xxsettings.txt file that it always downloads via TFTP. Previously I had the following in my 46xxsettings.txt file SET SIPDOMAIN […]
Read MoreCompiling boblightd on Ubuntu Trusty
Some notes regarding the installation of Boblightd on Ubuntu Trusty mkdir ~/src/ sudo apt-get install portaudio19-dev libusb-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libx11-dev libxrender-dev libxext-dev libgl1-mesa-dev svn checkout http://boblight.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ ~/src/boblight cd ~/src/boblight/ ./configure –prefix=/usr make make install Restore /etc/init.d/boblightd from backups chmod +x /etc/init.d/boblightd update-rc.d boblightd defaults Restore /etc/boblight.conf from backups
Read MoreMQTT to Zabbix Gateway
For a while now I’ve been wanting to try and monitor home automation parameters by using Zabbix. I already use it to monitor, graph and alert on servers and services at work and at home, so it was a logical extension to use it for home automation. I hope to […]
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